On Monday, November 07, 2011 12:09:36 pm mor...@wzff.de wrote: > > >Number: 162354 > >Category: docs > >Synopsis: Improve wording in rc.conf(5) regarding network-interfaces. > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-doc > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: doc-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 07 19:00:22 UTC 2011 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Moritz Wilhelmy > >Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64 > >Organization: > >Environment: > >Description: > According to rc.conf(5), ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n> is deprecated, > because it fails if <n> is not continuously increasing (i.e. if a > number is > missing, the rc-scripts abort the search for bigger values of <n>.) > It isn't specified what should be used instead; I guessed > ipv4_addrs_<interface>, but Marco Steinbach brought > /etc/start_if.<interface> to my attention, which is mentioned in the > same > paragraph. This is confusing. Could someone please clarify which one of > these is supposed to be used in place of the deprecated > ifconfig_<interface>_alias<n>, especially since ipv4_addrs_<interface> seems > not to have an equivalent ipv6_* variable?
I don't think ifconfig_IF_aliasN is depreated, though you can now use ifconfig_IF_aliases as an alternate. Also, both ifconfig_IF_aliases and ifconfig_IF_aliasN handle both IPv4 and IPv6. See this commit for more details: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=252015 -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
